anotherlife
Gold Member
Human resources departments will fight against your view forever.
I'm not sure this is about HR, it's more about politicians.
I think that all the above has an effect, but by far the greatest effect is by HR and related school counseling and career counseling. This is because every student listens to how to get a job even if they listen to nothing else. Politicians are way down the priority ladder there. And HR represents the corporate interest which is almost entirely against the interest of individuals, so individuals will not become "good adults good parents good partners good people in general" as stated in your post above. They will become good and disposable fighting machines against themselves and against everything. A western democracy has never been successful in balancing these.
Oh, but if that were only true! Spend any time with a high school student recently? I am betting you haven't.
I am just off high school. Contrary to your belief, not all of us want a career in pharmaceutical sales, hehehe.
I have taught in middle and high schools for over 20 years. Getting a student to even discuss employment after high school is like pulling teeth.
I must say I am highly surprised and I don't understand your observation. I was listening and most of my classmates were listening. Are you talking about students that are mostly from family business families? Under that condition I guess I can understand it, but even then, you can find a few that don't think that they have a place in their family's family business.